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At NPR's Baghdad bureau, Isra' al Rubei'i has long worked as a reporter and translator. She submitted this short piece of fiction about a man standing before a judge — a character, who she says represents the Iraqi experience.

One of only 15 men to survive the 1941 attack on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor has died at a Texas hospice.

The man who killed six family members and himself tried to stage the scene, according to authorities.

Texas has reached an $84 million settlement with a prescription drug maker convicted of inflating drug prices to the Medicaid program.

2011 has been one of the driest years ever for the City of Greenville.

A West Tawakoni woman is seeking a reduction in her bond in connection with a reported child abuse incident earlier this month.

R. Allen Stanford’s appeal for a postponement of his trial has been rejected by a federal judge.

A pickup that crashed into a mobile home in Parker County has killed two people and injured two more. The accident occurred just after midnight this morning in Springtown, about 30 miles northwest from Fort Worth. The occupants of the mobile home were uninjured, but two of the occupants were killed immediately and two others were hospitalized.

The temperature in North Texas is expected to remain above normal for 2011, but 2012 will be ushered in with another cold front; and with that cold front comes a reminder from the National Fire Protection Association.

Every year, thousands of Americans suffer severe injuries using the saws. But after a series of reports by NPR, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has started crafting new safety rules for table saws.